Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir Current Affairs - 2019

US President Barack Obama has nominated an Indian-origin diplomat Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir as the next US ambassador to Malaysia.

Her nomination is yet to be confirmed by the Senate. She would replace Joseph Y Yun as the next US ambassador to Malaysia.

About Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir

She had served as Executive Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2011 to 2015. She had joined the US Foreign Service in 1991.

Earlier she had served as the US Consul General in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom from 2009 to 2011.

Previously she had worked in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs as the Director of the Office of Maritime Southeast Asia from 2007 to 2009.

She was the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2005 to 2006. Prior to it she was a Political Officer at the US embassy in Beijing from 2001 to 2005.